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Last updated 18:29 Tue 07 Oct 2008

75 Born in Japan live in Switzerland

Education
Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design London

Teiji Hayama's paintings join together western and Japanese influences, combining different art historical periods with contemporary Japanese pop culture.

Many of the figures are pictured with fruits and animals which refer to theme from Christian art such as sin, salvation, envy and love.

Hayama's pale, ethereal figures with frail bodies and pale tinited eyes often inspired by mangas, portray an angelic appearance which clashes with a penetrating and unnerving glare directed at the viewer.

Teiji Hayama communicates the innocence of children by portraying nude girls. Nudity combined with innocence and vulnerability is often depicted in Japanese pop art. Hayama also wants to show the transition from childhood to adolescence, a physical and mental transitional stage involving social and psychological changes.

"I want my portraits to have a psychological charge and the viewer to feel the fragility of this phase of life".

Website: http://teijihayama.wifeo.com/